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Kitchen gadgets don’t have to burn your budget.

Nowadays, four out of five meals that Americans eat are prepared at home — and that’s up from just 10 years ago, according to research firm NPD Group. That means we’re likely chopping, measuring, slicing, dicing, scooping, storing and freezing things more than we have in years.

At the same time, we’re facing a pile of debt — student and auto loan and credit card debt all hit record highs as of the end of 2018, according to Experian — and probably don’t want to spend a ton to make cooking simpler.

So with all that in mind, MarketWatch scoured Amazon to find useful kitchen gadgets that were about $5 or less. Here’s what we uncovered.

Simple cake slicer and server for less mess, roughly $5 This handy item allows you to cut each piece uniformly — “no more kids complaining that someone got a bigger piece,” the description reads — holds the pie together as you slide onto the plate so you don’t have to get your fingers in the cake. But one reviewer did note that it doesn’t work for tall cakes.

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